bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> Now emacs packages are widely used,
>> it would be great to improve the startup message of emacs with a link
>> about how to quickly setup package.el to be usable.
>> I have regularly people complaining "It is not working" because
>> they install packages through package.el and they don't add in their
>> init file `package-initialize',
>
> Right, we do call package-initialize automatically for them, but we do
> it "too late" in many cases.  Maybe the best option is to emit some
> message at startup in the following case:
> - there are packages installed.
> - the .emacs file is non-empty.
> - there is no call to package-initialize in the .emacs file.

Yeah, anything will be good as long as they are warned.

> No idea how/why they'd do that, hence no idea how to help them
> understand they shouldn't/needn't do it.  This said, it should do no
> harm, does it?

It should not, normally it should not be possible compiling this, but
one time one succeeded to do this, don't know how though, but yes that is
not the problem the main problem is package-initialize not called.

Thanks.

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Thierry
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